Salary: £41,000 to £45,000 + up to 10% bonus per annum
Working Location: Nationwide Opportunity
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
*Please note: this is a Nationwide, home-based role where travel will be required at key times in the year between NHBC Head offices, training hubs, and external providers.
As a Special Educational Needs and Disability Lead with the NHBC, we want to ensure every student thrives in education at all levels. With expertise and compassion, you will develop an inclusive environment where every learner can flourish. By providing tailored support and innovative strategies, to champion each student's unique abilities, unlocking their full potential.
What we offer:
- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and a holiday purchase scheme
- Up to £7,500 regional allowance, dependent on location
- Generous pension scheme, with an employer contribution of up to 10.5%
- Life Assurance (x4 salary)
- Subsidised private medical insurance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Employee discounts platform, including gym discounts
- 24/7 employee assistance programme supporting your mental wellbeing
- 2 days volunteer leave
- Equalised maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay for all new parents
- Payroll Giving, this allows you to make donations to your chosen charity through?monthly pay deductions
What you'll be doing
- Completing initial assessment for learners with SEND needs identified as presenting significant barrier to learning, arranging further diagnostic assessments and or developing individualised support plans as required, providing ongoing learner support
- Maintaining central SEND register
- Maintaining learner PPEP with local authority bodies and attending meetings, coordinating plans with tutors as required
- Ensuring NHBCs staff remain up to date on relevant developments in learner needs support, identifying training and development opportunities and coordinating rollouts
- Overseeing learner needs curriculum management is kept relevant and regularly reviewed
- Maintaining accreditation with external bodies, maintaining condition of funding and records for ESFA for learner support needs funding
- Leading on curriculum for SEND during Ofsted inspections
- Designated Safeguarding Officer for all provision, deputising to Designated Safeguarding Lead
- Developing links and coordinating relationships with external bodies relevant for signposting and referral points supportive to learner requirements
- Responsibility for reporting to Governance on SEND provision and requirements, advising Senior Leaders of strategic trends or concerns
The ideal candidate will have
- Experience with onboarding activities, including completing induction group sessions, advising tutors on support plans and guidance for accommodating common SEND needs.
- Experience advising and contributing to effective development of accessible teaching and assessment materials for learners with SEND needs.
- Knowledge and experience of Safeguarding measures and reporting.
- Extensive experience delivering training, teaching and assessment to learners at a variety of age levels including adults, probing questioning, coaching and action to obtain results.
- Experience in action planning with learners with significant barriers to learning - including but not limited to social, developmental, pastoral, mental health or physical needs.
- Background working with both virtual and face to face learning environments.
- History of working within management teams and reporting to senior leadership.
- Full confidence with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, video conferencing with Teams, Zoom Visio and Windows operating systems.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and be able to negotiate/communicate and influence effectively at all levels.
- Experience maintaining KPI compliance.
- High levels of literacy and numeracy.
- Excellent attention to detail and a very strong quality driven ethos.
Education and Qualifications
- Relevant SEND specialised qualification or ability to work towards EG. (Level 4 Supporting the Learning of learners with SEND)
- IAG level 3 certificate or equivalent
Why you should join us
At NHBC we are proud to be unique. No other organisation in our sector combines the variety of services and scale that we offer. As the market leader, our name is synonymous with new home warranty and insurance. Our people are driven by our core purpose to raise standards in housebuilding and protect homeowners.
We are a modern, lifestyle and family friendly employer who are in a period of rapid growth, investing in technology, data and new ways of working. We need passionate, talented and driven people to join us on this journey.
We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly. We don't promise we can offer you exactly what you want, but we are always happy to talk flexible working.
Your future with us
We have lots of fantastic examples across our business of people who are building their career with us. We are huge advocates of internal mobility and work hard to retain our best talent. We offer exceptional personal development and career progression opportunities. If you're ambitious, driven and hard-working you will succeed with us. We'll support you with full training, ongoing development, and the opportunity to gain recognised qualifications and professional memberships.
Our inclusive culture
We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to bring their true selves to work. We fundamentally believe in the rights of all our employees and customers to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, free from discrimination. We have active employee networks that support our colleagues and their allies, creating safe spaces for open conversations and the sharing of ideas.
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